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Medical Polymers In India: Technological Developments And
Growth Pattern
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Availability, Compounding & Processing Facilities
Contributes To Growth
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Mr. Paresh Arvind Mehta
Director
Welset Plast Extrusions Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai.. |
Mr.
Paresh Arvind Mehta is a Director of Welset Plast
Extrusions Pvt. Ltd. He graduated in Commerce from
Mumbai University and then obtained a diploma in
Plastics Technology.
He joined the business at an early age of 19 and has
been instrumental in making “WELSET” as one of the
leading compounding houses in India. He has contagious
youthful vibrancy and has made WELSET responsible for
consistently delivering quality product and services
to customer’s satisfaction. Under him the company has
made significant investments in R & D activities so as
to substantiate the motto ‘Innovation In Compounding’.
Some of his Main Achievements:
• Set up world class fully automated state-of-the-art
manufacturing plant for Medical Grade PVC Compounds.
• Helped Welset grow to India’s leading Compound house
with an installed capacity of 50,000 MTA which
includes PVC compounds, Master batches, Tubing’s &
Sheets, PE and other polymer based Master batches.
• Engineered the launch of a number of specialized
products like Phthalate free and Gamma Radiation PVC
Compounds.
• Headed the R & D activities for the launch of
metallic and other specialty color master batches.
Gave export thrust to marketing. |
The growth of consumption
for medical polymers in India.
Growth of Medical Polymers
in India is on the lines of what happened in developed
world like US, Europe and Japan.
Conventional materials like
glass, metal, rubber, etc. have been replaced over the
years like it happened in many other applications.
In addition, higher life
expectancy, growing population, better excess to medical
care have all contributed to the growth of medical
polymers. Better availability of polymers, development of
compounding and processing facilities have also
contributed to the growth.
It is expected that medical
polymers will grow around 20% over next five years.
The specific product
areas where polymers being supplied by the company have
substituted conventional materials for medical
applications.
Specific product areas where
polymers being supplied by our company are given below:
Welset have substituted
conventional materials for medical applications.
Our main polymers for these
applications are PVC Compounds and semi-finished products
like PVC Tubings and Sheets. The above range of our
products cater to the following main applications:
Effect of Improving
Regulations on the global medical device industry. The
regulations and compliance criteria met by Polymers
Supplied by The Company.
Welset is equipped with
technologically most advanced facility to produce full
range of PVC Compounds, niche Medical Grades, Master
batches and semi-finished products like Tubings, Sheets,
etc.
This facility has ISO –
9001:2008 Certification and clean room under class 100,000
environment.
Welset PVC Compounds for
medical applications meet following important regulations
and compliances:
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FDA, European Pharmacopeia,
US Pharmacopeia for physico-chemical properties and
biological properties.
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Phthalate – free compounds
meeting EU directive 2005 / 84 / EC, EN 14372, ASTM D3421&
CSPC-CH – 1001.09.2.
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Radio opaque compounds –
meeting USP class VI & ISO 10993 diagnostic purposes.
Polymers for Packaging
Applications.
As said earlier, we mainly
offer PVC compounds for medical applications.
These compounds are used for
the following packaging applications:
Pharmaceutical Packaging
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Containers
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Blister Packs
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Bags
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Pouches, etc.
Medical Packaging
New developments in the
polymers supplied by the company.
Some of the new developments
in polymers supplied by our company find uses in the
following applications :
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Radio opaque compounds for
catheters to be detected for their positioning inside the
body.
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Non Phthalate – Non DEHP
compounds for medical devices requiring superior
resistance to extractions (non leaching) by blood lipids
and high fat emulsions.
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Gamma Radiation sterilisable
PVC Compounds with minimal color shift.
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Photolysis resistant
compound (due to photo oxidative degradation of the
polymer).
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